The PowerVault 745N is based on a 1U server chassis that can be equipped with a 2.4GHz/128 KB Celeron, 2.8GHz/1MB Pentium 4, and 3.2GHz 512 KB Pentium 4 processor, up to 4GB of main memory that is implemented as cache for the disks in the unit, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports for linking to servers.
It runs the trimmed-down Windows Storage Server 2003 variant of Microsoft Corp’s operating system and can be equipped with up to four Serial ATA IDE disk drives with a total capacity of between 160GB to 1TB of capacity.
Servers running Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and NetWare operating systems can store data on this NAS device; the Unix-alike operating systems are supported through Microsoft’s Services for Unix extensions.
With a Celeron processor, 512MB of cache memory, an unspecified RAID controller, and four 40GB disks it costs $2,332. Machines that implement RAID algorithms in the Windows software instead of in hardware cost only $1,803.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
